{"id":225309,"date":"2025-10-19T14:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225309\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T14:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:39:13","slug":"it-feels-a-bit-like-a-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/225309\/","title":{"rendered":"It feels a bit like a Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/fabio-jakobsen\" title=\"Fabio Jakobsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabio Jakobsen<\/a> was at the very top of the cycling world, widely considered the best sprinter in the peloton with Soudal &#8211; Quick-Step, after completing a miraculous recovery over the crash he suffered at the Tour de Pologne in 2020. This year he&#8217;s facing health issues that have taken him out of competition for a great part of the year, but is excited to finish it at home with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-of-holland\" title=\"Tour of Holland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Holland<\/a> and its cheerful crowds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels a bit like a Tour de France with so many people along the roadside shouting my name,&#8221; Jakobsen said in words to Wielerflits, being one of the stars in the late-season race that has been reintroduced in the calendar this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Netherlands, the cycling nation, needs a race like this. I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s back. Everyone would rather ride here in their home country than in China,&#8221; he says, regarding the Tour of Guangxi. Jakobsen started the season already after a troubled 2024, but an iliac artery issue saw him take a break and undergo a surgery back in March. He was ruled out of the major races throughout the summer and only returned to competition in late August at the Renewi Tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Disaster struck again, as he crashed and suffered a collarbone fracture. &#8220;It was an unfair break. A huge slab on top [he refers to road furniture, ed.), a lot of debris in the middle&#8230; I can start here, but not in top form. The goal is to rack up the miles. That&#8217;s a shame, because my form was on the rise. Without a crash in the Renewi Tour, I could definitely have been fighting for the top spots again here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he has spent the first road stage chasing down the breakaway, working towards the ambitions of his young teammate Tobias Lund Andresen who finished third on the day. &#8220;Now it&#8217;s just helping the guys and keeping the engine running, then enjoying the winter. I&#8217;ll go on a short vacation and then kind of see it through. For me, it&#8217;s really great that I can do this work here. I train here half the time and can dream of the roads. I&#8217;d rather sprint than do this work, but for now, I&#8217;m trying to enjoy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few years ago Fabio Jakobsen was at the very top of the cycling world, widely considered the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-225309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}